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Originally Posted by ΣΣΣMagan
 I am sure that most of you are aware of the new show on ABC family GRΣΣK. It kinda bugs me that they use the Sigma instead of Epsilon in the title's letters. However, I was watching "My big fat greek wedding" with my mom the other night and noticed that in all of their introduction credits, every place where an E was required, a Σ was substituted. Are people really that ignorant? I mean, I understand that Σ looks like an E, but it's not; It's an S. |
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I would say that
some people are that ignorant. But the people who do the titles for shows or movies like "GREEK" or "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" aren't ignorant at all -- they're trying to make the title eye-catching and Greek-looking. I've seen plenty of Greek restaurants (owned by Greeks who certainly aren't ignorant and who understand that
Greek itself is not the Greek word for "Greek") do the same thing. It's been going on a long, long time.